1924 and are . 's drama outlines a marriage that is stronger than the couple realizes. It lasts three weeks at the 39th Street Theatre.
1926 The songwriting team of and highlight at the Vanderbilt Theatre in New York. pens the story of a man who trains for a bicycle race using a butter churn.
1943 Would you ? 's play about the lives of teenagers runs 956 performances at the Biltmore Theatre in New York.
1960 exposes the relationship between and . Using the couple's correspondence as a starting point, writes and stages the play. and star.
1992 , , and headline 's , which opens at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. The plays sees plenty of holiday-appropriate green in advance sales, but the show receives mixed reviews and closes August 2.
1993 Theatre legend dies at the age of 92. Known as the First Lady of the American Theatre, the awards and honors she received during her lifetime (including the first Tony for Best Actress) filled an entire room in her home. In 1955, on the 50th anniversary of her professional stage debut, was named for her. In 1993, the Helen Hayes Awards were established to honor achievement in theatre in her hometown of Washington, DC.
1996 and team up for a non-musical murder mystery, , with a top-notch cast including , , , , and . It runs just 17 performances, but is memorable for its macabre ad. The logo, which showed a pistol-toting gargoyle, was changed after the closing notice to show the gargoyle with the gun pointed at its own head.
2005 A banner day for musical theatre as opens on Broadway, starring , , and , and begins previews. The two shows dominate the 2005 Tony Awards with Piazza winning the most (six) and Spamalot coming away with Best Musical.
2011 A revival of 's opens on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre. , who made his Broadway debut as Septimus Hodge in , takes on the role of Bernard Nightingale. The cast also includes and .
2014 , who in 1965 founded the theatre troupe that would grow into the multi-theatre Broadway behemoth, the , dies at age 91.
2016 The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of opens at Studio 54. , , , and star.
Today's Birthdays: Paul Green (1894-1981). (1895-1955). Alfred Newman (1901-1970). (1907-1997). Frederick Brisson (1912-1984). (1916-2004). Rudolph Nureyev (1938-1993). (b. 1955). (b. 1960). Kelly Hutchinson (b. 1976).
